Graeme Wood (journalist)
In 2017, he won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction, which he was eligible for due to holding Canadian citizenship, for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State and was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Early life and education
Wood was born on August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota, to John Kenneth Wood and Louise Ann Kwan. He grew up in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1997. He spent a year studying Arabic Language at American University in Cairo, and also studied central Asian languages at Indiana University and Deep Springs College before transferring to Harvard College to study African-American Studies and Philosophy, graduating in 2001.